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Calling on the Matchmaker

Shanahan Match, Book 1

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Calling on the Matchmaker

By: Jody Hedlund
Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
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Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail, Finola quickly realizes she can't outsmart or outwit the dashing, determined, and daring man.

A candidate in the St. Louis mayoral election, Riley is confident a union with the wealthy Shanahan family will help solidify his chances of winning—and even more assured he and Finola can make a difference together. When a cholera outbreak begins to take St. Louis by storm, they must navigate a burgeoning attraction and growing danger testing all they know about love and sacrifice.

©2023 Jody Hedlund (P)2023 Tantor
Christian Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance
Interesting Story • Fun Characters • Great Storyline • Enjoyable Plot • Pleasant Voice
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Enjoyed the story - and Irish brogue but struggled to listen to the readers strange raspy voice and choppy narration.

Good story - strong characters

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This story is, so far, wonderful! However, the very muted, almost whisper like, depressed sounding narrator is ruining the story! She does great with the voices of the characters. However, her narration when she is not speaking for a character is so BORING that the listener almost misses the humor that the author has skillfully written into the story. Because the story is great, I will continue to try to finish this book. But, I am not even a 1/3 of the way in and might just have to give up, return this title, and order the written copy instead. I am hoping the sequel is read by a narrator with a bit more personality.

Trying to finish

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What a thoroughly enjoyable story! The plot and characters are both fun and interesting, and the narrator did an excellent job bringing it all to life. I am looking forward to the next book in this series.

Thoroughly Enjoyable

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Very emotional roller coaster and worth it. Good book. Always Like Jody Hedlund. Not my favorite narrator but the book made up for it.

Emotional

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very good book. A little steamy but clean listen. the voice was weird like she was trying to be sultry maybe? it didn't sound right half the time but I seriously looked over that cause this was a good book

loved loved loved

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When I find myself skipping through a book I know it’s not for me. Way too much “tension” building in the characters minds and not enough plot.

Not enough story

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The story is great! Love the romance without the dirty bits. Narrator was good but a little more change in excitement and drama would have been good. Voices were great!

Clean romance

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It was a good story, I enjoyed very much! I liked the narrator. He voice was pleasant. I will read this author again and again.

a great read

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It took along time to get to the good part..the last 30 mins. I did not like the female lead at all..This book is very wordy..and my mind wondered alot...

Calling the matchmaker

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I listened in 2.0 speed after a few chapters. I skipped to the ending chapters after the fifth time they conversed about marriage. Just not much plot or strong characters.

100 percent Romance

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